Getting started with Toad Business Intelligence Suite

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Get started with Toad Business Intelligence Suite, Dell Software's solution for easily accessing, integrating, and provisioning data.

Hello, my name is Peter Evans, and I am the product technologies consultant for Business Intelligence and Analytics for Dell Software. A self service BI tool set, Toad Business Intelligence Suite is an easy to implement solution that gives your users the connectivity and tools they need for reporting and business analysis.
Toad Business Intelligence consists of three tools. The first is Toad Intelligence Central along with its admin console. This allows the users to create data sets, to share data, and collaborate around it. Is a shared repository and collaboration platform for the Toad Intelligence Suite. Connecting to Toad Intelligence Central is simple.
Just use the Toad Intelligence Central admin console, which you see on your screen here. Push in details of a Toad Intelligence Central by adding a new server. And once that new server is added to your system by putting in your host address, the standard port number, you can then apply the password.
Once you have opened up your Toad Intelligence Central admin console, you will see your Toad Intelligence Central assigned underneath the Intelligence Central service. If this is your first time with connecting, please do not forget to change the password, which has been set as the default password to something more secure.
To do this, right click on the server, connect to the server, and once you have connected to the server, you can then change the password by applying to change it. To change the password, right click on there, server name and go change password from the menu. Type in the old password of password, and then put in your new password.
Along with Toad Intelligence Central and the admin console, there are two desktop clients which need to be installed on your users' laptops or desktops. The first of these is Toad Data Point. Toad Data Point is a desktop tool that empowers business systems analysts to quickly develop complex queries, access nearly any data source, or even a combination of multiple data sources, within single queries.
It allows you to create these queries, to interrogate the underlying databases, and then to automate processes going forward.
Along with this tool is Toad Decision Point. Total Decision Point is the business user tool. It allows the line of business analysts the ability to quickly visualize their data, gaining access and insight from the data stored within the Quickstart Data Warehouse. They can utilize the dimensional viewer to see the data in different ways.
They can create visualizations of this data from very quickly clicking on and actually accessing the chart. They can send the data to a pivot table very quickly, creating conditional formatting on the charts and actually seeing these conditional formats applied immediately. They can apply different charting views, from bar charts, to area charts, to scatter plots.
They can change the view of these to trellis charts and actually apply quick chart calculations. They can do filtering on the data and actually filter the actual view that they're looking at very quickly. They can see this data in different types of themes. Here we see a black theme, here we see a trellis chart with multiple trail lines, and here we see a quick chart calculation of percentage of difference, pane over pane, with a trend line applied.
Once all of this data is available to them, they can also then see this data in a dashboard type of view, scrolling through the data so they can see the story that they have. This data is also available via [INAUDIBLE] and an online viewer which allows access via an iOS app or via HTML packages sent to other people.